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10-20-2009, 06:49 PM
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Owner, Iron Ether Electronics | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: LA US | | | Could someone with a PC or Linux machine please do me a solid?
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I have some files I need to upload to get a circuit board made. They need to be archived into a Zip or Tarballs archive, and this archive needs to have the individuals files in its root, rather than in a folder. For some reason, Mac OSX is incapable of doing this; it automatically zips into a folder. I can't find any program for Mac capable of this.
I'm just looking to send these files to someone, and have them zip them into either a .zip, .tar.gz, or .tgz file. The files are all either .txt or .gbr (Gerber) file format.
It would really help me out of a jam! |
10-20-2009, 06:51 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Omicron Persei 8 | | | tar cvf file.tar file1 file2 file3 .... fileN |
10-20-2009, 08:14 PM
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Owner, Iron Ether Electronics | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: LA US | | | Well, thanks for the help, first of all.
I've spent the last hour and a half decoding your message, learning to work Terminal, to find that it just outputs a file that opens as a folder (exactly the same as if I just used Finder's built-in archive tool).
This is not your fault, and again, I appreciate you trying to help, but it's not working for me. Anyone willing to take my files and zip them? It should only take a couple seconds. |
10-20-2009, 08:17 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by conical johnson  Well, thanks for the help, first of all.
I've spent the last hour and a half decoding your message, learning to work Terminal, to find that it just outputs a file that opens as a folder (exactly the same as if I just used Finder's built-in archive tool).
This is not your fault, and again, I appreciate you trying to help, but it's not working for me. Anyone willing to take my files and zip them? It should only take a couple seconds. | I'm not a Mac guy, but... chances are that the Mac is set up to automatically open the tarball as if it were a folder. So you might be OK. Windows does this nowadays. Is there a way you can look at the properties of the file?
If your circuit board service is similar to the one that I use ( www.barebonespcb.com), when you upload the file, it will tell you what it thinks is in there before proceeding with your order. |
10-20-2009, 08:21 PM
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Owner, Iron Ether Electronics | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: LA US | | | I usually use "real" PCB fab houses for actual runs, but right now I'm just getting a single proto board, so I'm going through batchpcb.com. Their website won't accept the tar file that Terminal spit out when I ran the command that karrot-x posted. It also won't accept the file that Finder generates when I archive the files. |
10-20-2009, 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by conical johnson I usually use "real" PCB fab houses for actual runs, but right now I'm just getting a single proto board, so I'm going through batchpcb.com. Their website won't accept the tar file that Terminal spit out when I ran the command that karrot-x posted. It also won't accept the file that Finder generates when I archive the files. | Send me the files @gmail.com, minus the "-" |
10-20-2009, 08:28 PM
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Owner, Iron Ether Electronics | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: LA US | | | Files sent. Thanks! |
10-20-2009, 08:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New City, NY | | | If you have a gmail account yourself, you could send an e-mail with all the attachments to yourself. When you receive it, click on the 'Download All Attachments' button, and it will automatically zip the files.
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10-20-2009, 08:43 PM
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Owner, Iron Ether Electronics | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: LA US | | | Hmm, I don't have a Gmail account, but that's good to know. Maybe I'll sign up for one. |
10-20-2009, 08:52 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | What's the preferred layout program these days for the Mac? |
10-20-2009, 09:02 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Omicron Persei 8 | | | Responded with the archive.
By the way, what's this for? |
10-20-2009, 09:31 PM
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Owner, Iron Ether Electronics | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: LA US | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fdeck What's the preferred layout program these days for the Mac? | I don't know what's preferred, but I know what's free: http://pages.swcp.com/~jchavez/osmond.html
I like it, seems able to do everything I need, but I'm only using it for 2-layer effects PCBs. I don't know how usable you'd find it if you had to do more complex things, but it certainly has abilities beyond my needs. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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